JT/King Valun at The Window on the South requested that we review a "Braveheart" movies so we watched and here it is.
Thoughts: We had very high expectations for it and it was close to our expectations. It is definitely making our Top 50 Movies. After watching it, being the fans of history we are, we wondered how munch of it was historically accurate. It was very inaccurate,which isn't necessarily a bad thing, two of the main characters ages were way off like. French princess Isabelle who at the time of The Battle Falkirk was three years old. If you have seen the movie you would know that would mean that a major point in the plot would not be there. And Edward son of Longshanks was not born until seven years after William Wallance's uprising. And The Battle of Stirling Bridge was missing the bridge. Not to mention that the Kilt was not worn by the Scots until a few hundred years later. The movie actually loosely based on the Historical Ballad by Blind Harry's Wallace. Click Here. to read the history about it. Although there was some of the movie that was historically accurate. We really don't mind that the movie is Historically inaccurate because it is a movie and it is fiction with some of the movie being based on fact.
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Genre: Action, War,
Release Date: May 24, 1995
Running Time: 177 minutes
MMPA rating: R
The Good: One amazing and epic battle scene, Some other good action scenes, Inspirational story, Epic speech, Good acting, Surprisingly humorous,
The Bad:
Warning: This movie is rated "R" for extreme graphic violence, and other mature content.
Plot: The following plot summery is copied from Wikipedia.com.
In the 13th century, after several years of political unrest, Scotland is invaded and conquered by King Edward I of England (known as "Longshanks") (Patrick McGoohan). Longshanks summons the defeated Scottish nobles to a meeting, but instead of discussing terms as they were led to expect, he simply hangs them en masse.
Young William Wallace witnesses the treachery of Longshanks, survives the death of his father and brother, and is taken abroad by his uncle where he is educated. Many years later, Longshanks grants his noblemen land and privileges in Scotland, including Primae Noctis, the right of the lord to take a newly married Scottish woman into his bed on the wedding night. When he returns home, Wallace (Mel Gibson), intending to live peacefully, falls in love with his childhood sweetheart Murron MacClannough (Catherine McCormack), and they marry in secret so that she does not have to spend a night in the bed of the English lord.
Their marriage is eventually discovered and when an English soldier tries to rape Murron, Wallace fights off several soldiers and the two attempt to flee. But Murron is captured and publicly executed by the village sheriff, who proclaims "an assault on the King's soldiers is the same as an assault on the King himself." In retribution, Wallace and several villagers slaughter the English garrison and execute the sheriff. Watch the movie to see what happens next.
Plot: 9.2/10- The story is loosely based on true events. The story is very Inspirational and very well made.
Action: 9.0/10- Braveheart is had some great action scenes but it is not action packed movie.
Acting: 9.2/10- Overall acting was top notch with Mel Gibson's preformance being the stand out best.
Special effects: 8.5/10- We normally don't rate movies like for special effects but the effects for the blood
Soundtrack: 8.9/10- The soundtrack fitts the feel of the movie perfectly and it is very inspirational just like the movie.
Comedy: 7.9/10- We were not exspecting munch humor in the movie and we were surprised, in a good way.
Overall: 9.1/10- Overall Braveheart is a great epic and delivers on the story.
Closing comments: Braveheart is one of the few movies that actually deserved to win the Oscar for best picture.
Warning: This movie is rated "R" for extreme graphic violence, and other mature content.
Recommended for: Action movie fans, War movie fans, Epic movie fans,
Looks cool. Nice review.
ReplyDeleteFor Christmas we got the Clean Flix version so hopefully the really R rated stuff will be gone. Haven't seen it yet.
Well, I'd rate it at about an 8.8, handicapped for historical inaccuracy and censored-out material. The rest of the movie was awesome, though.
ReplyDelete@Kayla: It would probably have to cut out a lot of the violence because it is probably in the Top 10 most graphic movies I have seen but it is very good.
ReplyDelete@JT/King Valun: I read that there was some unnecessary censorship in some of the scenes. I thought it some graphic violence but it has less of it than some other movies like "Windtalker".
-James
@ James: What I meant was that that my friends fast-forward over immoral material. Therefore, it is effectively censored.
ReplyDelete@JT/King Valun: Sorry I misunder stood. I know what you are talking about. I forgot about those scene since I also fast-forward also. I wished those scene were not in the movie.
ReplyDelete-James